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Laura Beatty: Looking for Theophrastus [2022] Hardback, (Atlantic Books) ZSCFI SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOKWho is Theophrastus, and why should we care? Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he invented Botany. The character of the Wife of Bath is his invention, the Canterbury Tales as a whole, perhaps, the product of his inspiration. When Linnaeus was developing our modern system of plant taxonomy, it was Theophrastus' work on plants that he used as a basis. So how could one man do so much and
